A Beautiful Easter Sunday.

We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful Easter Sunday!  The sun was shining all day, it was warm and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

We started out the day with an Easter egg hunt in my parents back yard and Veronica was old enough this year that she really had fun with it!

The Easter egg hunt was a huge success and in fact Veronica even wanted us to hide some of the eggs again (which we happily did - anything to keep a 2 year old entertained, right?)

After the Easter egg hunt it was time to eat!  The table decorations that my mom did this year were by far my favorite - simple and sweet.

After completely stuffing ourselves on the wonderful meal that my  mom had made, we all felt like a walk was definitely in order.  So we all walked to the little park literally right down the street in the beautiful sunshine.  We brought Veronica's trike and let her have free rein of the tennis courts which she absolutely loved!

We had such a lovely Easter Sunday.  It reminds me how lucky I am to have such a wonderful family to spend beautiful day like this.

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend!

Abby

Easter Basket Goodies!

For the first time in I don't even know how long, I have actually planned ahead for a holiday!  Don't get me wrong, I always have my lists and ideas of what I want to do and buy - but somehow time just seems to slip away and I feel like I'm always scrambling at the last minute.  This year I managed to pull together Veronica's Easter basket in record time.  I found some really cute things and some great deals!

As I've mentioned before Veronica is obsessed with coloring.  I found these Crystal Crayons and the Fancy Scissors on sale at Land of Nod and I think she's going to love them.  (I'm sure I'll be finding cut up paper shavings around the house for the next decade but totally worth it, right?)  I also found the adorable little Woodland Bunny Nightlight at Land of Nod too and I think it's going to be so cute in her room.
I also got a couple of books - Veronica is obsessed with Golden Books and loves putting them in her little Owl Skip-Hop backpack and carrying them around with her.  I think it's something about them all being the same size and easy for her to maneuver in and out of her backpack.  The two books I found are also Golden Books but Easter themed.  I think she'll love them too and hopefully they won't end up as coloring books like some of her other books seem to have...
The stripe shirt is from good ol' Target and so is the cute straw cup.

I shouldn't give myself too much credit because I'm not completely done.  I still need to get a little bit of toddler appropriate "candy" and maybe another book or two.  I'm thinking I'll put a cute bow on the basket too just to dress it up a bit, but all in all, I'm pretty well done!

(I ordered this dress from Zara for Veronica for Easter too and I just need to find a cute little cardigan for her to wear over it since Spring here in MN is laughable until around the beginning of June...).

I hope everyone is surviving their week - I could NOT be more happy that tomorrow is Friday!!

Abby